In general, technology makes things worse but cheaper. :-) A book printed with letterpress is nicer than a laser printed book, and an illuminated manuscript is

In general, technology makes things worse but cheaper. :-) A book printed with letterpress is nicer than a laser printed book, and an illuminated manuscript is even nicer! There are some technology shifts where the new thing is strictly better, like DVD to Blu-Ray, but the majority of the time you have give something up to move forward, like losing the ability to record when we left VHS behind. AI is going to really accelerate the trend by being really bad at a lot of tasks, but good enough to make do with.